meat and cheese diet

[riloh05]

so my s/other comes up with this diet and it is working very well. please help me with additional dishes that are basically meat and cheese. no carbs what-so-ever and please help with any clever ideas?

 

[hornian]

is your s/o named atkins?

 

[jmrob93]

a few words of advice-- fiber makes everything better--meat and cheese--bad combo

don't eat all bacon and sausage-- the old calorie rule still applies and fat does matter to an extent

veggies are good--minus starchy ones

I make low carb pizza-- low carb tortilla, cheese, onions, tomato slices, good black olives, chicken fajita strips and don't feel deprived in any way-- baked of course

turkey, cheese stick lettuce roll?

 

[NickDanger]

I have lost lots of weight on Atkins, but the bottom line is you have to eat less calories than you consume if you want to lose weight. You either need to eat less or exercise more. I'm a lazy bastard so I have decided to eat less.

There is no such thing as a perpetual motion machine and there is no such thing as "starvation mode" where your body gets tipped off to your diet and somehow magically doesn't burn calories in defiance of your "diet". The Atkins diet/no carbs approach will absolutlely get you a result, but it probably isn't sustainable for very many people. Just eat less (and pay attention to calories of what you do eat) or exercise more or both.

 

[Bernard]

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[#3Rules]

Several years ago I lost 50 pounds eating low carb. I didn't even need to lose that much, but it just came off so easliy, before I knew it I was down to 150.

I didn't do Atkins,or monitor calories, I just tried to stay around 30 carbs a day, sometimes more. I quit doing it when the wifey got pregnant, and over the next 3 years put it all back on +20, but I was eating pretty ******.

I started doing it again about 2 months ago, and I've lost 25 pounds. I'm pretty much having to quit now though. I'm having some health issues and am going to see a holistic healer, I haven't even seen her yet, but she's got me eating 3 granny smith apples a day, and drinking a bunch of carrott, celery, and parsley juice. That pretty much blows the low carb thing right there. My main thing is that when I eat low carb I feel better, that's one of the many reasons that it's a real easy diet for me.

 

[Texas Law]

Why if eating low carb makes you feel better and helps you lose weight would you stop?

I've had great success on Atkins, losing 85 lbs about 3 years and keeping it off other then the 10 lbs I gain around the holidays and then lose the first couple months of the year.

And I disagree with the calories in/ calories out argument. I've used fitday to keep track of my calories and carbs, and find that I tend to eat 2500-3000 calories a day on Atkins and lose or maintain weight depending on the carb count. Occasionally I've grown bored with the Atkins diet and done a more traditional lower fat diet, but even at 2000 calories a day I gain weight! For most of my life I had been fat, and constantly on low fat or caloric restriced diets and never had much success without massive amounts of exercise. I've now been at a healthy weight for over 3 years. I feel better, sleep better, and my blood pressure and lipid profile are at acceptable levelsfor the first time in my adult life. Plus I get to eat foods that I enjoy and never have to be hungry.

 

[Texas Law]

Also, for the original post, no carb is not a good idea. Atkins is the most restrictive of the low-carb diets and even in the induction phase, you still have 20 grams of carbs a day. I imagine your diet would be pretty succesful even if you added 20-50 grams of carbs a day of green vegetables or other healthy carbs.

A good source of low carb recipes:
www.genaw.com/lowcarb/recipes.html

 

[NickDanger]

There are obviously foods that are easier to metabolize, but you really can't rewrite the laws of thermodynamics.

 

[jmrob93]

I pretty much follow the Southbeach-- tha main difference-- more fiber, lower fat, more--or maybe not--not too sure complex carbs-- I focus more on glycemic index, but don't go crazy either. I'm at 48 lbs lost and plan to lose 15 more-- the difference between this and the Atkins only--now I do cardio--tread mill 4 days a week, core strengthening 4 days a week, a weiights 4 days a week and puchups and curls--6 daya a week--I have probably put on 5 lbs or muscle while losing the 48 lbs-- so when I lose a little more there is a 6 pack under neath-- I'm very satisfied with the progress

I think the realy trick is to find healthy food you love and are satisfied with-- my favorites,,, eggs with pico de gallo, eggs with pesto sauteed tomatos, turkey sticks and a cheese sticks, tuscan tomato soup, ribs, plums, avacados, cobb salad, heuvos rancheros, olives, and turkey on mozzerela wth tappenade-- all of thos I love-- so I keep it all andy and it keeps me out of the snack machine-- that goes a long way

 

[OrangeBlooded]

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[txeconomist]

summer sausage
pork rinds
pickles

 

[Rusk]

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[RayDog]

The problem regarding calories is that a bomb calorimeter is not a good model for the human digestive process. Oils and fats are laxitives in small quantities, are are turned into energy with a significantly lower efficiency than carbs. A high percentage of proteins are broken down into amino acids and used by the cell development and repair, not for energy, and excess proteins are eliminated. Even alcohol is converted to acetic acid (half the calorimeter calories) just to start with.

You can't compare two diets using heat calories if the carb/fat/protein ratios are different.

I like a no carb pizza, by making a thin crust out of ground beef or breakfast sausage. You can use sauce or fresh tomatoes depending on the number of carbs you're allowing. This is the real meat lovers pizza.

 

[Bernard]

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[orange avenger]

I've been on the Atkins diet my whole life.

Chet Atkins, that is.